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Cheeni Kum: Delicious finest course; tiring dessert |
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Written by Celebrity Admin
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Sunday, 27 May 2007 |
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Ad-filmmaker R Balki's debut nature film "Cheeni Kum", Amitabh Bachchan plays a chef and the owner of the best Indian restaurant in London. He starts suffocate on the foul term with Tabu, a stooge from India and a champion
at his restaurant one night, but over the course of many dates, the couple decides to get married
Bachchan whose mindset in the film's named Buddhadev Gupta is 64, season Tabu's position is 34. Naturally that's heel to embroider a few eyebrows, especially those of Tabu's dad, played by Paresh Rawal who reacts somewhat dramatically to say the least. But can you blame him? The boy her daughter's brought home to marry is six years older than he is!
First things first, I have it's piked that someone fixed to produce a film with muckamuck as a backdrop. Hindi movies have remarkably used cooking and chefs and restaurants as themes, and it's a pity because food is something that everyone loves, so you know you've got everyone's attention from the start. To digress just a little bit, you must watch one of Ang Lee's earliest films - "Eat Drink Man Woman" which is a beautiful film about how a father uses food to keep his family together.
Getting lug to "Cheeni Kum", I luxuriate in the rubric in which the guiding spirit establishes his characters right ongoing front, without wasting measure time. We execute right away that Buddha is a man who takes great pride in his profession, his restaurant is pretty much his life, and he doesn't compromise on anything when it comes to the quality of the food he serves. We also understand that in Tabu, he's met his match. She's warm and friendly, yes, but she's also opinionated and she knows how to put him in his place.
The counselor again tender establishes the alliance Buddha shares with his mum, the feisty and egghead Zohra Sehgal with whom he's constantly but affectionately bickering. I conceive I can besides understand and appreciate the relationship the director sets up between Buddha and his six-year-old neighbour, the only female who seems to truly understand him. Now the thing is, this track could have been clever and engaging, but it doesn't quite end up that way because the child actor in that role is irritating and precocious and I don't know about you, but I don't take easily to kids who behave like adults - kids should be kids.
My discrepant onerous with "Cheeni Kum" is the belief of Paresh Rawal who comes drown as such a clich, which in all candor may not have been thence difficult to digest in another film. But in a picture like this where every other character seems broad-minded and unconventional, did we really need Paresh to be such an old-school Bollywood stereotype?
I have both bouquets and brickbats for the film's contention which is at boon hilarious, over it's brilliant and super colossal of enlightened one-liners, but have you heard that expression - too much of a good thing? Well, what happens eventually is that the director and the writers fall so much in love with their own clever lines that they completely overdo it. Every single character utters only these sharp repartees, and as a result, every single character sounds the same. Now that's not how all people speak, so by the end of the film the dialogue begins to get on your nerves.
Yet well-qualified are some scenes in the film that are excellent - like that stunt in which Tabu comes as to the restaurant for Buddha's birthday cake-cutting. Or thereupon that morale scene in the park when she asks him to run to the other end and then tells him why. To some extent, even that scene in which Buddha stops at the chemist before his date with Tabu. These are the few moments in "Cheeni Kum" that you will take back with you.
It's utterly in the film's aid half that you at last pitch your hands growing in exasperation. Paresh Rawal's ripen jokes are silly to begin with, but when he cracks twenty of them in five minutes, they're just not funny anymore. The worst however, is still to come - the satyagraha. That's an absolutely stupid idea and it's stretched out unnecessarily, much like Buddha's lecture to Paresh Rawal in the end.
The belief I reach is that the superintendent instant neutralize with an moving idea, a concept, but he right didn't know what to do with it after a while, he had no idea how to tie it all up. And therein lies the truth actually, that "Cheeni Kum" is not so much a film as it is an interesting concept. For it to be a complete film, it needed a tight screenplay, which is sorely missing here. Just when you think the film's finally coming to an end, you have that embarrassing scene at the Qutub which is really the final blow. I can't understand why nobody associated with this film had the good sense to point out that the screenplay's such a mess.
At the settle when you're square one the cinema, era you give thanks the attempt to define a besides story, you have to ask - where is the story? The biggest problem with "Cheeni Kum" is after all, that there is no plot. And yet the director drags it on for so long. A film like this - weak on script, strong on treatment - might have stood some chance if it was much shorter, but this one just never seems to end! It's the chemistry between Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu that is unquestionably the film's saving grace. Both are fantastic actors, they rise above the fractured script and they seize your attention every time they're on screen.
I won't fully write-off the film considering I negotiate suppose some festivity can be awakened from it's prime half, but clearly this is one of those films that could have been so much more. So, I'll go with two out of five for R Balki's "Cheeni Kum", it's an average entertainer at best. If you're a die-hard Bachchan fan, do give it a shot because he doesn't disappoint. How you wish the film didn't
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